Attorney General of Texas Christopher Kronshagen. A Conroe man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after pleading guilty to solicitation of aggravated sexual assault of a child and attempted sexual performance of a child, crimes committed in 2006. Christopher Kronshagen, 41, was arrested in 2006 by a cyber crimes unit after arriving at […]
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PEDRO UGARTE / AFP / Getty Images PHOTO GALLERY: Click on the picture above to see a gallery around events in Egypt. As protests in Egypt escalate, Twitter is a great source of eyewitness accounts. We’ve got two Chronicle reporters pulling together updates from the service. Freelancer Sarah Raslan, who is Egyptian, is in touch […]
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NASA is pausing today to remember the 17 astronauts lost in the line of duty. The so-called Day of Remembrance — always the last Thursday of January — takes on special meaning this year. Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the shuttle Challenger launch disaster. Flags will fly at half-staff at NASA centers nationwide Thursday. […]
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Authorities say they have arrested a Bay City man in connection with phone calls threatening Bay City ISD students. KPRC reports that Paul Nolen May, 41, is a substitute teacher. The school district’s website carries this statement this morning: 1/27/2011 An arrest has been made on the BCISD Terroristic threat issue. We have been informed […]
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League City is a home away from home for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, where she spends time with her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, who is based at the Johnson Space Center nearby. Giffords is back in the Houston area, of course, at TIRR Memorial Hermann, recovering from gunshot injuries in the Jan. 8 […]
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Handout photos Mona Nelson was a friend of Jonathan Foster’s mother’s roommate. The Houston Police Department is asking the Texas Attorney General’s office to keep recordings of 911 calls in the Jonathan Foster case, secret. According to Jeff Monk of HPD’s Open Records division, the department is exercising its right to have the recordings kept […]
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has arrived at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. James Campbell, spokesman for the hospital, said the congresswoman arrived safely in the first of three Life Flight helicopters to land at Memorial Hermann this afternoon. Below is a photograph of that helicopter landing at the hospital, snapped by Chronicle photographer Michael Paulsen:
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